Where Politics And Video Games Collide

I agree wholeheartedly with this. It seems any time they try to pass a law that would restrict someone’s access to something, the holy scripture of the constitution is trotted out.

The Constitution is basically holy. If you don't understand that, you're either not a US citizen, or you shouldn't be one.

I fail to see how this in any way is unconstitutional.

You fail at reading then. It breaks several amendments, that's the term of unconstitutional.

As I said in another post, it’s sad that we have to pass laws requiring retailers to do what they should be doing in the first place, but that’s what happens when you put the almighty dollar ahead of being a good corporate citizen.

It isn't sad that we have to do it. It is sad that its being attempted to be passed to hope to look good in the face of the ignorant public based off of speculation and fear.
Good corporate citizen? There's no such thing, please quit trying to joke.
These politicians would sell you down the river if it made them a dollar at your expense. Don't talk about "good corporate citizens".




All you people whining about this are not looking at the plus side.
There is no plus side.


The CCA took the bullseye off the comic book industry and parents and politicians started looking for something else to blame.

At the expense of that medium basically going to crap? That's not a plus.

The video game industry needs a similar deflection tactic. The ESRB ratings system hasn’t done it, this might be the ticket to get people looking in other directions (like maybe they’ll finally figure out the common thread between the 50s and today is bad parenting… one can hope).

Passing a law to hope things work doesn't do ****. Look at how they treated the FTC findings, they scoffed at them. The most likely situation will just involve other forms of dealing and untaxed money being passed. A really bad scenario would be a fresh employee buying the game for himself and this'll fine the retailer or himself.

This doesn't even involve the enforcement. Police officers being forced to stay staring at a register to not stop something harmful like cigarettes from getting to kids but a damn game with cartoon violence on it?

The word "adult content" is overly vague, and in the minds of the PTC waggling to hit someone can be labeled as "adult content" because of the violence being simulated. Do you understand how screwed up it be if a kid bought a Wii and Wii sports is said to have adult content because of the Mii variations or the violence in Wii boxing?